The photos were sent to this reporter by England-based First Light Publishing this morning, a day before the self-proclaimed "Greatest Band in the World" performs at DTE Energy Music Theater with Motley Crue.

Denis O'Regan/First Light PublishingPaul Stanley still has the skills that made him such a showman back in the day in Detroit's historic venues like Cobo Hall and Joe Louis Arena.

According to the publisher, approximately 627 hours were spent working on the images, and up to eight people were working on the reproduction of the images at any one time.

First Light PublishingThe KISS "Monster" book is now joke. It's more than three feet high.

The publisher also told Mlive Detroit in an e-mail that it took 52,250 pounds of paper to print the 1,000 limited edition copies of "Monster," and it took 14 days - 196 hours total - to print all the copies.